Dan Sullivan - Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

Dan Sullivan

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Dan Sullivan is a principal engineer and software architect at New Relic. He specializes in streaming analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing. Dan is the author of the Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide (Sybex, 2019), NoSQL for Mere Mortals (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015), and several LinkedIn Learning courses on databases, data science, and machine learning. Dan has certifications from Google and AWS along with a PhD in genetics and computational biology from Virginia Tech.

Valerie Parham-Thompson has experience with a variety of open source data storage technologies, including MySQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra, as well as a foundation in web development in software-as-a-service environments. Her work in both development and operations in startups and traditional enterprises has led to solid expertise in web-scale data storage and data delivery.

Valerie has spoken at technical conferences on topics such as database security, performance tuning, and container management. She also often speaks at local meetups and volunteer events.

Valerie holds a bachelors degree from the Kenan Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill, has certifications in MySQL and MongoDB, and is a Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect. She currently works in the Open Source Database Cluster at Pythian, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.

Follow Valeries contributions to technical blogs on Twitter at @dataindataout.

I have been fortunate to work again with professionals from Waterside Productions, Wiley, and Google to create this study guide.

Carole Jelen, vice president of Waterside Productions, and Jim Minatel, associate publisher at John Wiley & Sons, led the effort to continue to create Google Cloud certification guides. It was a pleasure to work with Gary Schwartz, project editor, who managed the process that got us from an outline to a finished manuscript. Thanks to Katie Wisor, production manager, for making the last stages of book development go as smoothly as they did.

I am especially grateful for Valerie Parham-Thompsons expertise in Google Cloud. In addition to catching my subtle and not-so-subtle errors, I learned some nuances of GCP that I was not aware of.

I appreciate the close reading by the technical reviewer, Stacy Veronneau, who agreed to continue working with our team after having been a reviewer of the Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide.

Thank you to Google Cloud subject-matter experts Jasen Baker, Marco Ferarri, Rich Rose, Grace Mollison, Samar Bhat, Josh Koh, Kuntal Mitra, Michael Arciola, Lisa Guinn, Eoin Carrol, Tony DiLerto, Volker Eyrich, and Teresa Hardy, who reviewed and contributed to the material in this book.

My sons James and Nicholas, both technology writers themselves, were my first readers and helped me get the manuscript across the finish line. Katherine, my wife and partner in so many ventures, supported this work while fostering her increasingly impactful projects in literary publishing.

Dan Sullivan

The Google Cloud Platform is a diverse and growing set of services. To pass the Google Cloud Professional Architect exam, you will need to understand how to reason about both business requirements and technical requirements. This is not a test of knowledge about how to do specific tasks in GCP, such as attaching a persistent disk to a VM instance. That type of question is more likely to be on the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer exam. The Google Cloud Certified Professional Architect exam tests your ability to perform high-level design and architecture tasks related to the following: